Chapter 78

Sat on the couch in the apartment and trying so hard to process all that went down. I aimlessly hold the ice pack to my face and stare at my shaking hands. I jump when the door opens, nervy as hell, and Alexi stalks in with Mico. He looks me over with a completely unreadable expression, and they both walk straight past to the kitchen.

I have been sitting up here for an hour or two with no sense of time, no idea what was going on down there, and I can’t get my head around anything. He brought me up here, handed me a strong drink and the ice pack, and then stroked my hair back from my face before leaving me alone. It was surreal, like another Alexi from another place, and then he returned to take care of the mess he had made.

Alexi killed someone, right in front of me, because of me. I don’t know what to do with that, and I don’t know how to feel. I think I’m in severe shock, everything feels surreal and floaty, and even though my face is throbbing, I feel numb. I saw the